Shock Horror. Aussie Policy Creates a Black Market

[hedgeybaby]

Yet again the law of unintended consequences strikes. 

https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2018/09/australias-new-tobacco-industry.html?m=1

 

 

[BeerPimp]

Who could have ever seen this coming?   Everyone should have.   I looked up the vaping laws and could not believe how restrictive they were.   if you want to use vaping to quit smoking you have to get a prescription? That seems ridiculous.

[Ritch]

No surprise. Laws and enforcement is very strict in Aus. Rather fitting as it's the land where Britain shipped all the criminals...

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[Ken Gargett]

1 hour ago, Ritch said:

No surprise. Laws and enforcement is very strict in Aus. Rather fitting as it's the land where Britain shipped all the criminals...

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actually, basic hostory will show that the worst ones never left british shores. we got a few slightly dodgy ones. 

[mtd057]

Such a shame.  

[MD Puffer]

Nanny states seem to be the government du jour.

[Ritch]

36 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

actually, basic hostory will show that the worst ones never left british shores. we got a few slightly dodgy ones. 

I suppose so. We ran out of room to house them in the house of commons...

[Ken Gargett]

Just now, Ritch said:

I suppose so. We ran out of room to house them in the house of commons...

that, and the fact that anyone who did anything half bad never made the boat. got the noose back in old blighty. 

[Ritch]

3 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

that, and the fact that anyone who did anything half bad never made the boat. got the noose back in old blighty. 

Too true. We just sent the cattle hustlers and sheep shaggers to Aus...

[Ken Gargett]

whereupon the sheep "gentlemen" all immediately left for NZ. 

[Ritch]

2 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

whereupon the sheep "gentlemen" all immediately left for NZ. 

Perhaps! Still loads left in Wales mind... can always send a few more over? ?

[westg]

5 hours ago, Ritch said:

No surprise. Laws and enforcement is very strict in Aus. Rather fitting as it's the land where Britain shipped all the criminals...

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Ha you think so....Now they do whay ever they can to get here ...and not go back...we house 100 thousand poms living and working here illegally 

Now just bums ..looking for a free ride out that god forsakin dump ?

[Ritch]

44 minutes ago, westg said:

Ha you think so....Now they do whay ever they can to get here ...and not go back...we house 100 thousand poms living and working here illegally 

Now just bums ..looking for a free ride out that god forsakin dump ?

And more working there legally. My aunt and her kids emigrated. God knows why. Searing temperatures and spiders the size of dinner plates! Not for me!

Britain is not a dump... it's the birth place of modern civilisation and the industrial revolution. 

At least we share the same Queen...

 

[gweilgi]

11 hours ago, Ritch said:

No surprise. Laws and enforcement is very strict in Aus. Rather fitting as it's the land where Britain shipped all the criminals...

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All?  Hardly.  

We also shipped lots of convicts to the North American colonies, especially Virginia and Maryland.  Between 1718 and 1775, around 9% of all immigrants to the 13 colonies were convicts, or fully a quarter of immigrants from the British Isles.  

 

[Ritch]

I'm sure that if we had known there were spiders the size of dinner plates we would have sent more. Giant spiders is a punishment all in its self.

Anyhow, out of interest why do Aussies call us lot Pomms? What's the history there?

[IanMcLean68]

1 hour ago, Ritch said:

I'm sure that if we had known there were spiders the size of dinner plates we would have sent more. Giant spiders is a punishment all in its self.

Anyhow, out of interest why do Aussies call us lot Pomms? What's the history there?

I don't know if anyone really knows the correct answer, its a bit shrouded in history and you will hear various supposed etymologies.

The most common you will hear is that it is a contraction of "pomegranate", a fruit common and popular in the UK, and also rhyming slang for "immigrant". Typical rhyming slang inherited in Australia from cockneys.

I really don't know how much truth there is to this though.

[Ken Gargett]

Prisoner Of her Majesty is another theory. not sure if true. 

[Ritch]

Are pommegrantes popular in the UK? Never heard the connection to immigrants either.

Prisoner of her majesty sounds more likely... especially considering the Aussie sense of humour.

Anyhow back to the original topic... I thought tobacco tax in the UK was bad but it is considerably less than Aus.

Would I be right in thinking that in Aus a 50g pouch of rolling tobacco is approx 60 pounds sterling?

[cigcars]

21 hours ago, Ritch said:

I'm sure that if we had known there were spiders the size of dinner plates we would have sent more. Giant spiders is a punishment all in its self.

 

[Auspaul]

Did not know about most of those incidents would be hard to grow anything now had a mate at Tully who had the Department of Primary Industries come to his house and ask him about Bananas growing on his property they had seen them from a satellite  . He told them they were wild ones and had washed away as they were on the bank of  a little creek  This was about 13 years ago and was 3 or 4 plants  they could  see them with tress that were 20 metres high over them